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Child drawing of children. The FXB Center is founded on the inextricable link between health and human rights and is committed to filling critical gaps in mainstream academic scholarship to champion the rights and dignity of every individual, with special attention to children—among the most vulnerable.

Select peer-reviewed publications

Structural and Scientific Racism, Science, and Health — Evidence versus Ideology

The New England Journal of Medicine
September 20, Nancy Krieger and Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)

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Exploring the association of household location and sociodemographic profile on dietary diversity in occupied Palestine: a serial cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
August 8, Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)

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Minimum Standards for Medical Care of Youth Incarcerated Across the United States

Pediatrics
July 21, Tess Kelly (Co-Author)

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Climate change, migration, and health: Development of a case-based workshop for immigrant and refugee health professionals

The Journal of Climate Change and Health
July 2025, Tess Wiskel, Gaurab Basu (Co-Authors)

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Select Research and FXB News

New cohort of Scholarly Working Groups to tackle pressing global health challenges (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, September 25, 2025)

Solidarity towards distress migrants: how changing frontline communities
depend on states to build a new public
.” Ruth Rubio Marín, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Benedita Menezes Queiroz, Fulvia Staiano (Eds.). Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, Jacqueline Bhabha, Vasileia Digidiki (Chapter Co-Authors)

Canadian Roma: A People Uncounted (FXB Roma Program report profiled, Travellers Times, September 5, 2025)

NIH director Bhattacharya’s views on health disparities contradict, experts say (Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, August 7, 2025)